Word: hunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supershoppers. Money pinned to their bras, they spend part of every business day prowling the basement's depths while TV cameras and store detectives with walkie-talkies watch. Though some supershoppers resell their bargains at a profit, the most sophisticated brave the basement for the thrill of the hunt. Such is Mrs. Josephine Conroy of Needham, Mass., an attractive, smartly attired (all in Filene's bargains) grandmother...
...trying to invent a world and then smuggle himself into the lives of his invented and remembered populace. In the author's second novel, Hind's Kidnap, the protagonist is obsessed by the search for a kidnaped four-year-old child, as well as a hunt for clues to his own early background, and the attempt to dekidnap himself and all his friends who have been stolen away from their childhood into an adopted adulthood. The excellent but dumfoundingly prolix result is an often funny, painfully intense psychological detective story filled with Double-Crostics, Nabokovian word games...
...foreign posts to Prague, where an eye can be kept on them. Several judges have been sacked, and liberals in Communist women's organizations are being dismissed from office. Many leading journalists and broadcasters lost their jobs in the early days of the Soviet-led invasion; now the hunt is under way for the less well-known newsmen and intellectuals, who have conducted a bothersome rearguard operation against political repression...
...softens Clancy and does the implacable warrior in. Eastlake does not say. Whatever the cause, Clancy tarnishes his hero's image and lets down his troops as well. Deep in a forest he dies a slow, solitary death, while both his own side and the Viet Cong hunt for him as if he possessed some solution to the war, or perhaps to life itself...
...really come only to test myself. And in the meantime to pretend merely to play a role, to be a would-be streetfighter, to laugh at my own needs, to search out ironies and inconsistencies, to hunt down all that was absurd...